Knowledge Claims and Landscape
Alternative Views of the Fuelwood-Degradation Nexus in Northern Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reginald Cline-Cole (Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England), Reginald Cline‐cole (0009-0005-0447-6975, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-346 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d160311 |
| OpenAlex | W1982833232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 28 |
The existence of competing or contradictory orthodoxies in Nigerian forestry is a long recognised, if little explored research problem. Far from being the product of a monolithic culture, regional forestry, or, more inclusively agrosilvipastoral landscapes and fuelscapes, are social products which have been described as often construed in a plurality of ways and invested with diverse if not antithetical meanings by different individuals and social groups. They represent sites of contestation and cooperation for human agents and state agencies engaged in constructing, maintaining and modifying woodfuel and other forestry-related discourses. The author juxtaposes several such contests, their meanings, and the discourses of which they are a part. He does so with particular reference to perceived linkages between fuelwood use and production, on the one hand, and vegetation and degradation and other environmental change, on the other. The geographical focus is dryland Nigeria, in particular its regional forestry spaces and landscapes. In the conceptual framework empirical theorisation is combined with discourse and landscape analyses. The author concludes that the juxtaposition of forestry discourses, which he attempts, creates spaces for different landscape visions to be seen as virtual realities, which are shaped and sustained by social forces and (technologies of) representation
Conceptual framework · Geography · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Vision · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropology · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Energy and Environment Impacts
Woodfuel Discourses and the Re-framing of Wood Energy
Trends in farmland tree stocks in the agroforestry landscape of northern Nigeria
Remarkable increase in tree density and fuelwood production in the croplands of northern Nigeria
Wood energy interventions and development in Kano, Nigeria
Fighting over the Forests
Political Ecology and the Geography of Science
Cultural landscapes and ecology III
Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa
Local Community, Legitimacy, and Cultural Authenticity in Postconflict Natural Resource Management
Maintaining the Environmental-Racial Order in Northern New Mexico
New Ecology and the Social Sciences
Methodological Reflections on the Use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science in Human Ecological Research
Enclaves of Banditry
Beyond Verticality
Landscapes of Power
The Politics of Fire and Forest Regeneration in Colonial Bengal
On fuelwood consumption, population dynamics and deforestation in Africa
The politics of space
Promoting (anti‐)social forestry in northern Nigeria
Political Economy, Fuelwood Relations, and Vegetation Conservation
Land use policies and biotic conservation
Forestry policies and programmes for fuelwood supply in Northern Nigeria
Trees as Tools, Trees as Text
People and Environment in Africa
Re-claiming” Land in The Gambia
Introduction
The Man-Made Desert in Africa
Conservation in Africa—people, policies and practice
The Lie of the Land
The Worse it Got, the More We Laughed
The Encroaching Sahara
Land and People in Nigeria
Desiccation and the West African Colonies
Europe's 'Others'? Forestry Policy and Practices in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Landscape and Surplus Value
Hausa Medicine
Colonialism and Forestry in India
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |